Oh did I laugh She was known as the gibbon for while after that. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
In this latter respect they recall the gibbon in its effort to walk. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
Do you feel better or worse for the news that a gibbon is your close cousin?. From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
The buffalo and the gibbon are the largest in the islands, with a variety of monkeys. From Wordnik.com. [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference
Of the apes, though many can stand upright, the gibbon is the only one that attempts to walk in this position. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
These are bears, tigers, tons of birds and of course the black-crested gibbon, which is really the draw of the program. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
This Canadian girl would like to know what a "gibbon" is?. From Wordnik.com. [Scotties, Inchies, Gibbons, Girls] Reference
I thought a gibbon was a type of monkey. From Wordnik.com. [Economical with the actualite] Reference
He withdrew a small coin, tossed it to the gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
That of a gibbon with a deceptive reach, for example. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
Thanks for the low-down on a gibbon .... inquiring minds. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, Canadian Girl!] Reference
In the gibbon, for instance, they open between the orbits. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Larger mammals present include banteng and pileated gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests] Reference
The Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is also critically endangered. From Wordnik.com. [Western Java rain forests] Reference
Yes, find out why this couple decided to go gibbon to tie the knot. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2004] Reference
Corliss was a nimble-fingered gibbon with an empathetic bedside manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The Mentawai gibbon has one of the most splendid songs of any land mammal. From Wordnik.com. [Mentawai Islands rain forests] Reference
With the agility of a gibbon, he pulled himself up and continued ascending. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
"Take it easy," murmured Jon-Tom, eyeing the cowering gibbon sympathetically. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
As the ladder struck home, the climbing gibbon drew his saber and cut at her legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Landing on a portion of the stabilizer housing, he clambered down it like a gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
I got a handful of cute pictures of baby cheetahs, though, and a good one of a gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [tired me] Reference
The destruction includes prime habitat for the orangutan, siamang, and white-handed gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [Sumatran montane rain forests] Reference
As in most of northern and western Thailand, the gibbon present is the wide-ranging Hylobates lar. From Wordnik.com. [Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests] Reference
Primate species include the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) and Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock). From Wordnik.com. [Irrawaddy dry forests] Reference
Buncan stumbled to a halt, glad that the haphazard creature hadn't been given the arms of a gibbon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
I thought I might end up with the physique of a gibbon; very attractive on a gibbon, less so on me. From Wordnik.com. [2009 February « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
The gibbon exhibits this iliac expansion through the sitting posture which developed his ischial callosities. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
Then the gibbon stepped aside, Marley put down his mouth-stylus, and they voiced their diagnosis simultaneously. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
The hominids advanced in size, to be sure, outstripping the gibbon, and equaling or even slightly surpassing the chimpanzee. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The difference being he embraced this free fall like a gibbon embraces anything he can get those frighteningly long arms around. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Gaskins: Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg] Reference
Other primates include silver leaf monkey Presbytis cristata, Phayre's leaf monkey P. phayrei and white-handed gibbon Hylobates lar. From Wordnik.com. [Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand] Reference
There is no evidence for it, and the only pair-bonded primate we have in our direct lineage (the gibbon) has in fact huge canine teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Frans de Waal: Was "Ardi" a Liberal?] Reference
Gorilla skulls, two ashtrays made from gorilla feet, the arm and hand bones of a gibbon, and bald eagle skulls were among the inventory. From Wordnik.com. [Ghoulish Boutique] Reference
After trying a half-dozen current male matinee idols, including a gibbon who performed in Asian, they settled on a fortyish Sean Connery. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
In these creatures the arms are as long as the body and legs together, and are so powerful that a gibbon will hang for hours suspended from. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
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